The Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London highlights the TV sports offerings this weekend. Here’s what else to watch this weekend in sports:
The Summer Olympics kick off on Friday, and as you’re watching some of those feats of superhuman achievement over the next couple weeks, pay attention to the athletes’ body language — it could speak volumes.
The games of the XXX Olympiad begin Friday in London. NBC, which is broadcasting an unprecedented 5,535 hours of the Summer Olympics on TV and online, is hoping Americans will be glued to their screens over the next couple weeks.
But will they?
Olympic taekwondo may not be as popular as, say, swimming or track and field, but its athletes are just as motivated. Take Diana Lopez, for example, a fierce competitor in the sport who hopes to soon add gold to her 2008 bronze medal win in Beijing.
The Opening Ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics is set to take place this Friday, but two of the fine faces we were hoping to see partake in the infamous orgies at Olympic Village won’t be in attendance thanks to a ‘racist’ tweet and a flat out failure to qualify.
If you don’t have Olympic fever yet, fret not. We’re here to help with a list of our 10 favorite facts about the games that you never knew.
From Bob Mathias to Bruce Jenner and Dan O’Brien to Bryan Clay, American decathletes have established a tradition of athletic excellence in the Olympic event that many experts feel produces the greatest all-around athlete in the world.
Leave it to Mickey Rourke to muscle his way into Olympic coverage. The notoriously storied actor recently spun a yarn about one crazy night where he claims to have defeated Usain Bolt in a footrace.
During its illustrious history, the Olympics has been a hotbed for controversy. It can be countries pulling out in some form of protest, the IOC banning athletes or competitors who will cause a storm of controversy.
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, it takes an artist like David Cerny to remind you that you haven’t. The Czech artist has created one of the biggest, coolest, and weirdest things for visitors wandering around outside the Czech Olympic headquarters in London. It’s big, it’s red, and it does push-ups.
Forget the 2012 Summer Olympics, what people really want to see are a bunch of hipsters throwing confetti and horned-rimmed glasses at each other while chugging down bottles of beer. That’s the 2012 Hipster Olympics for yah.